Cockeye.



PATENTED APR. 18

S. P. DAVIS.

GOGKEYE.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 6. 1904.

UNITED STATES Patented April 18, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

COCKEYE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 787,498, dated April 18, 1905. Application filed June 6, 1964-.- Serial No. 211,425.

To (LZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STERLING P. DAVIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Canyoncreek, in the county of Lewis and Clark and State of Montana, have invented a new and useful Cockeye, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cockeyes such as are fastened upon the ends of harness tugs or traces for engagement with whifiietrees.

The objects of the invention are to improve and simplify the construction of such devices.

With these objects in view the invention resides in a cockeye having movable means for retaining the trace thereon, the movable means being always connected with the cock eye.

The invention also resides in the use of a novel combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of constructionhereinafter described and claimed as a practical embodiment of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cockeye embodying the features of the present invention and fitted to the end of a trace. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view thereof with the trace omitted. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. a is a detailsectional view to indicate the form of hinged connection between the members of the cockeye.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts in each and every figure of the drawings.

In the preferred embodiment of the invention the numeral 1 indicates the body of the cockeye, which is formed with a stationary jaw 2 and an attaching-eye 3. Upon the body 1 are two lugs 4 4:, to which is pivoted in any suitable manner, by means of a tongue 5, a jaw 6. Formed on the jaw 2 is a projection 7, which is adapted to extend through a perforation in the trace 8 and is provided with an extension 9, adapted to fit into a socket in the pivoted jaw 6. A screw 10 preferably is passed through the pivoted jaw 6, extension 9, and projection 7 to lock said jaw in closed position. The extension or boss 9, fitting in the recess upon the inner side of the movable jaw 6, effectually braces the latter, so as to remove the strain from the hinge and the fastening l0.

Formed preferably upon the attaching-eye 3 is a screw-driver 11.

It will be understood that two tugs or traces, and consequently two cockeyes, are used on each set of harness. When it is desired to remove the screw 10 of one cockeye in unlocking the movable jaw, the screw-driver of the opposite cockeye is used for this purpose.

In applying the improved cockeye a perforation is made in the trace and the projection 7 is passed therethrough, the two jaws of the cockeye being then looked together. Should the trace break, another perforation is formed therein and the jaws are again locked together.

From the foregoing description it will be observed that the pivoted jaw 6 constitutes movable means for retaining the trace upon the cockeye, the movable means being always connected with the cockeye, so as not to become displaced or lost therefrom should the screw 10 Work loose. Furthermore, it will be observed that the screw 10 constitutes means for locking the movable retaining means. Moreover, the jaws 2 and 6 by reason of the fact that they are flat and do not form a casing capable of receiving only one size of trace constitute movable means for retaining differently-sized traces upon the cockeye.

If the cockeye be made of wrought-iron, the jaw 6 is preferably pivoted in place by bending wrought-iron tongues 12 12 on the lugs 4 4 around transverse projections 13 on the tongue 5 of said jaw 6.

Changes in the precise embodiment of in vention illustrated and described may be made within the scope of the following claim without departing from the spirit of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is A trace-fastener comprising a body having a laterally-offset longitudinal integral jaw at one end thereof, an integral cockeye at the opposite end, a pair of transversely-alined spaced shoulders upon the body opposite the jaw, each shoulder having a bendable extension overhanging the body and extending toward body, said extensions being bent around the projections to form a permanent hinged connection between the jaws, and means to lock the movable jaw in its closed position.

In testimony that 1 claim the foregoing as the cockeye, a movable jaw having its inner my own I have hereto afiixed my signature in end resting against the body and provided with an intermediate terminal longitudinal tongue working between the shoulders and having opposite lateral pivot projections lying between the extensions of the shoulders and the the presence of two witnesses.

STERLING P. DAVIS. Witnesses:

J. W. MOILRAIN, Z. MILLER. 

